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twitter.com/temponew • facebook/temponews • Email:temponews@comcast.net • May 21 - May 27, 2015 • TEMPO News • Page 3
EDITORIALS • COLUMNISTS • EDITORIALS • COLUMNISTS
White Eyes and Black Lives
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BY RAYNARD JACKSON, NNPA COLUMNIST
America Should Become
More Racist
Continued on Page 10
Two weeks ago, our
First Lady, Michelle
Obama seemed to have
caused a hornet’s nest
of controversy with her
graduation speech to
the students of Tuske-
gee University. She
was the wrong mes-
senger, with the wrong
message, at the wrong
place, at the wrong time.
It was very difficult to
listen to our First Lady
rant on about the travails
of being the first Black
First Lady. She travels
around the world on a
private jet, has maids
and housekeepers at her
beck and call, has a se-
curity detail and sends
her kids to one of the
most expensive pri-
vate schools in the U.S.
But yet her speech
centered on how
racist America is.
Somehow she failed to
talk about how America
is racists enough to elect
a Black man to be presi-
dent; America is racist
enough to create su-
per wealthy people like
Dave Steward, Oprah
Winfrey, and Bob John-
son; America is racist
enough to have a Black
attorney general; Amer-
ica is racist enough to
have a Black who owns
a professional basketball
team (Michael Jordan);
America is racist enough
to have over 200 Black
owned newspapers;
America is racist enough
to have over 100 Histori-
cally Black Colleges and
Universities (HBCUs).
Though these students
were about to receive
their university degrees,
they seemed totally un-
aware that many of those
coming behind them may
never have the chance to
finish their degrees or it
may take them longer
to receive and might
be more costly because
of Obama’s husband.
Mrs. Obama received
several thunderous
applauses during her
speech, but there was
no mention of the dev-
astation reeked upon
HBCUs by the poli-
cies of her husband’s
administration. Based
on conservative esti-
mates, HBCUs have lost
$ 150 million in funding
during his presidency
which has caused at least
28,000 Black students
to drop out of school
due to lack of money.
Obama was right,
America does have a
racist past and some of
its vestiges continue rear
its ugly head on occa-
sion. Slavery and rac-
ism are still the biggest
blemishes on Ameri-
can history; but because
we are Americans and
showed resolve, we also
have one helluva story
of redemption to tell.
We have come a long
way from the days of
slavery and Jim Crow.
We have Blacks making
millions of dollars in
sports, music, business,
science, and education.
Blacks have been to the
moon and back. And
did I mention, we even
have a Black president?
This graduation should
have been a time for
Obama to inspire and
motivate these students
about the best of Amer-
ica; to challenge them
to take up the mantle of
progress and take it even
further. She could have
used America’s racist
past to celebrate our na-
tion’s journey down the
path toward redemption.
Now juxtapose
Obama’s speech with
that of actor Denzel
Washington. Earlier this
month he spoke to the
graduating class of Dil-
lard University in New
Orleans, LA, another
HBCU. Obama’s speech
was just over 26 min-
utes; Washington’s was
just over 12 minutes.
Washington gave one
of the best graduation
speeches I have ever
heard; it was very pow-
erful and motivational.
His speech centered on
his faith in God and his
realization that many,
many people are respon-
sible for the success
he has attained in his
life. His achievements
were not his alone.
He challenged the stu-
dents to “put God first
in everything you do;”
to be humble and try
to make a difference in
other people’s lives; not
to just be about mate-
rial gain for oneself.
I sometimes think lib-
erals continually want
to obsess about Ameri-
ca’s racist past and con-
servatives continually
want to obsess about
pretending that Amer-
ica has no racist past.
We should all be able
to agree that America has
come a long way over the
past two hundred years
or so. America is not as
badasitusedtobeand
not as good as it can be.
So, my problem with
Obama’s speech was
she chose the wrong
time, place, and mes-
sage for the occasion.
Washington’s speech
made you want to go
out and make America
better, whereas Obama’s
speech made you want
to condem Ameri-
ca’s very existence.
If liberals like Obama
continue to think Amer-
ica is such a terrible,
racist country despite all
that America has given to
her and her family; I can
only hope America be-
comes even more racist.
Raynard Jackson &
Associates, LLC is an in-
ternationally recognized
political consulting,
government affairs, and
PR firm based in Wash-
ington, DC. Jackson is
an internationally rec-
ognized radio talk show
host and TV commenta-
tor. He has coined the
phrase “straticist.” As a
straticist, he has merged
strategic planning
with public relations.
I love my Black
friends, I love my
non-Black friends and
I love my neighbors.
But most peo-
ple just don’t get it!
It amazes me how
many folk are so quick
to judge others us-
ing their own criteria.
Why is it that I know
that individual people
are treated in differ-
ent ways but some be-
lieve everyone and ev-
erything is the same?
Every day I hear some-
one say or see where
someone wrote, “The
kid was shot because
was a criminal” or
“They burn down their
own neighborhoods”!
They say, “They
can’t get a job because
they’re lazy” or “They
can’t figure it out be-
cause they are dumb”!
The truth of the mat-
ter is that it is easy for
non-Blacks to criti-
cize Black people and
Black life but the crit-
ics can’t go to sleep
and dream about living
the life that most Black
people have to live!
In a capitalist country,
it’s all about the money.
I’ve seen a white
person go into a bank
and get a million dol-
lar loan with only his
signature and I’ve seen
a Black man with over
$100,000 in his bank
account go into the
very same bank and get
turned down for trying
to get a $30,000 loan.
Trailer trash living in
the worst trailer park
in town can walk into
a bank and get a mort-
gage loan for site built
home purchase but a
Black man living in a
middle or upper class
neighborhood can’t get
a loan to renovate or
add a room to his house.
What upsets me the
most is how non-Blacks
in big money businesses
like stock trading, asset
management, commod-
ity trading or interna-
tional finance can’t un-
derstand how “Bruce”
or “Amy” can transfer
millions and billions of
dollars in 48 hours and
it could take a Black
person 48 days to do the
same type transaction.
Whether you are for
real or not, if you tell
your banker that you
will be receiving mil-
lion dollar MTs, SWIFTs
or other large money
transfers, your bank-
er won’t believe you.
Not even your friends
and family that know
you best will believe
you if you say you will
be getting million dol-
lar commissions on
billion dollar trading
platform investments.
You won’t be believed
because you’re Black!
Said or not said, the be-
lief is that there are cer-
tain financial limits that
are impossible for Black
people to reach or enjoy!
The biggest financial
obstacle that Blacks
have trouble explain-
ing and non-Blacks
have difficulty in see-
ing are the political and
law enforcement road
blocks and setbacks.
Blacks in high fi-
nance are scrutinized
far more than everyone
else. Everybody gets
background checked and
due diligence inquiries
when dealing with very
large sums of money but
Blacks get far more neg-
ative depictions when
they are investigated.
Not all Blacks get
money from conflict
gems or conflict miner-
als. Every Black person
is not a terrorist. And,
most Blacks in high
finance areas are not
embezzlers, con men,
drug dealers or thieves!
So, when money is
held up by America’s
Patriot Act or by sim-
ilar laws and acts in
other countries it is not
unusual to Black peo-
ple around the world.
But white people es-
pecially get up in arms
about a mere request
to have their luggage
searched at an African or
Caribbean airport. They
will call their Embassy
if they are in a country
of color and get their
credit card rejected!
Instead of criticizing